Breens prides itself on providing lots of opportunities for our students in the sporting arena.

In recent times we have had students who have shown excellence at gymnastics, triathlon, swimming, cross country, netball, rugby, football, waterpolo, hockey, squash, martial arts and basketball.

We regularly enter teams in inter-school events in summer and winter sports as well as the annual South Island Indoor/Outdoor Tournaments. Through its sports and PE programme Breens provides students with the chance to experience a wide range of sports and physical activities.  

Our school is proud to work with the University of  Canterbury Sports Coaching Programme.  We are also proud to be a Healthy Active Learning (HAL) School and work with Sport Canterbury - promoting fitness, play and sport.

Some of the opportunities in sport include:

• Rugby
• Football
• Basketball
• Hockey
• Touch Rugby
• Netball
• Softball
• Tennis
• Badminton
• Volleyball
• Lawn Bowls
• Rugby League
• Water Polo
• Climbing wall
• Swimming instruction
• Squash
• Mountain Biking
• Gymnastics

Outside of the classroom students have experienced kayaking, caving, climbing, surfing, tramping, archery, lawn bowls, golf, target shooting and skiing. 

We have a strong team of student Sport, Fitness and Hauora Leaders who are responsible for running lunchtime activities and promoting health and physical activity across the school. 

We always welcome support and input from our parent community so if you can help out with Breens Sports and Physical Education programme please feel free to contact Courteney Currey at courteney.currey@breens.school.nz.

Friday Night Sports

Water Polo

Our teams compete in the Year 7 and 8 Water Polo competitions at Jellie Park Aquatic Centre and Taiora Aquatic Centre. The teams play between 7:00 and 9:30 pm and have a weekly practice at Christ's College pool on Sunday evenings. We aim to send at least squad to Dunedin each year in Term Four to compete in the South Island Championships.

Basketball

Basketball is very strong in our school and on Friday afternoons we have six teams playing in the Year 7 and 8 competition at the Bishopdale YMCA. These games play between 3:30 and 8:00 pm.

Tuesday Sports

Winter and Summer sport is played weekly against other intermediate and middle schools across Canterbury. 

Summer sports

• Softball
  
• Cricket
  
• Touch Rugby
  
• Volleyball
• Tennis

Winter sports

• Netball
  
• Rugby
  
• Football
  
• Hockey
  
• Squash

Tuesday Play

The Breens sports leaders aim to make many opportunities for students to be active.  Tuesday PLAY is where everyone is in different groups for the afternoon and get involved and work together in a variety of sports and physical activities. There are so many groups with different activities and everyone is taking part in them so far!

In term one and two students have chosen from Ripper Rugby, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Nerf Games, Cultural Games, Yeah Girls Cricket, Sport Science, Four Square Tourni, Football, Meditation, Tennis at Bishopdale Tennis Club, Badminton, Basketball and Frisbee Golf.  At our school we are all about Hauora (wellbeing) and we know that physical activity and sport is a huge part of that!